| SWALLOW | Known collectively as a flight or a gulp, a migratory, swift-flying agile bird with tail streamers (7) |
| STEP | A tread or a pace, known collectively as a flight or a dance (4) |
| SWIPE | A grab or snatch; a gulp; a wallop; a stroke of a touch screen; or, a pass of a card through a payment terminal (5) |
| COALTIT | Agile bird with tail wagging in bed (4,3) |
| DRAGON | Known collectively as a flight, thunder or wing, mythical creature found in a bestiary or in its red form on the national flag of Wales (6) |
| WEDGE | Style of shoe with block heel; a word for a group of geese or swans in flight; or, a type of golf club for maximum loft in a bunker or trap (5) |
| WISP | A flight or flock of snipe; a bundle of hay or straw for shining a horse's coat; or, a little broom (4) |
| DIP | A quick bath or swim; a candle made by repeatedly immersing a wick in tallow/wax; a momentary loss of altitude during flight; or, a trough into which sheep are plunged (3) |
| AIRPORT | Whence a flight or a trip can be arranged (7) |
| MARTIN | A swift-flying swallow-like bird, such as the "house" species aptly named for its nest site under the eaves of a cottage or other such habitation (6) |
| HOBBY | Falcon related to the kestrel, merlin and peregrine; a swift-flying bird catching dragonflies on the wing with a Latin name used for the game Subbuteo (5) |
| SLUG | Terrestrial mollusc without a shell; a gulp or pour of liquor; or, a counterfeit coin used unlawfully to operate a slot machine (4) |
| ECHELON | Derived from the French for rung or ladder, a step-like body of aircraft, troops or ships also used to describe birds in flight or a peloton in crosswinds (7) |
| LAND | To guide a plane safely to the ground, as a pilot does at the end of the flight (or a plot of property) |
| CLOUD | A number of butterflies in flight; or, a meteorological mass studied or contemplated in nephology (5) |
| MERCURY | Named after a talaria-wearing swift-flying Roman messenger god, the first planet from the Sun or, the element with the symbol Hg (7) |
| TITULAR | Bird with tail docked going round the bend with name, but no power (7) |
| COXSWAIN | Murderer controls an animal and a bird with tail clipped in boat that he steers (8) |
| STAIR | One or a flight or steps in Bucharest airport (5) |
| SWAN | Kind of a dive, or a migratory bird |
